Adolph tode



(No Model.)

A. TODE. SLED.

Patented July so, 1889.

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UNITED STATES 'ATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPII TODE, OF MONROE, NEWV YORK.

SLED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,798, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed June 4. 1889. fierial No. 313.087. (No model.) i

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPH TODE, of Monroe, Orange county, New York, have invented an Improved Sled, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a sled so constructed that it will firmly hold the two feet of a standing passenger, who may propel himself by means of a boat-hook over the ice or snow.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement, more fully pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective viewof my improved sled, showing it in use. Fig. 3, a top view thereof; Fig. 4., a side view of a modification; and Fig. 5 shows the lower part of the boat-hook used for propelling the sled.

The letters I) Z) represent the two runners of a, sled, connected by a series of cross-pieces a, that constitute the foot-boards. These footboards are received by mortises out into the upper edge of runners b, and are properly secured to such runners by screws 0. The runners b are turned upward and backward at their forward ends to form the rearwardlyextending lips I), projecting over the foremost foot-board. Between these lips and the upper edge of runners b a V-shaped recess b is formed of a size to receive the tip or forward part of a shoe.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the sled;

In use the rider stands with both feet upon the sled, so that his feet project into the recesses b which securely hold him in place. The weight of the rider will be directly supported upon the runners b, which are of course best adapted to sustain it. The rider then. propels himself forward with an ordinary boathook A.

It will be seen that aboy can readily mount or leave the sled by simply stepping on or off. When he wishes to drag the sled behind him, he pulls it along by the hook A, which he slips over a crossbar d, connecting lips I).

In Fig. 4the sled is provided with a pair of.

rollers e.

What I claim is 1. A sled havingits runners turned upward and backward at their forward ends to form a pair of foot-receiving recesses above the foot-board, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of l'nortised runners Z) with foot-boards a, received by the mortises, the runners Z) being turn ed upward and backward at their-forward ends to form the lips I), and the recesses b above the foot-board, substantially as specified.

ADOLPH TODE.

Vitnesses:

F. V. BRIEsEN, WM. WAGNER. 

